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Big Phil
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:02 pm    Post subject: Home distillation Reply with quote
Why is home distillation illegal?

Home brewing is easy as pie, and its seems logical to progress to distillation.

So why is it illegal?

I have heard horror stories of people going blind from drinking methanol instead of ethanol. How true is this?

If ethanol vapours at 65 degree celcius with todays home technology a reliable and accurate still is relativley easy to create.

Any views anyone?
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Tax purposes I reckon.  It would be easy to distill some for yourselve, then sell it.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
its illegal purely due to revenue loss worries! speak to any pole they doit all the time there!
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Where's Wildman,i bet he has got a still up in them woods somewhere!!!    
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 5:05 pm    Post subject: Re: Home distillation Reply with quote
Big Phil wrote:
Why is home distillation illegal?

Home brewing is easy as pie, and its seems logical to progress to distillation.

So why is it illegal?

I have heard horror stories of people going blind from drinking methanol instead of ethanol. How true is this?

If ethanol vapours at 65 degree celcius with todays home technology a reliable and accurate still is relativley easy to create.

Any views anyone?


Actually Laws changed...

Its now legal to distill your own as long as its for personal use only.

Can even get the distillers on ebay. But would sooner make a reflux system myself.  
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
it has always been legal in scotland to still 1 gal per adult male per year  without paying tax .
3 books from my collection  brewed in america  stanley baron 1962 no isbn  / the alaskan bootleggers bible by leon  w kania  isbn 0-9674524-0-6
alcohol distillers handbook  isbn 0-87947-303-7 1980 cheers
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
and heres all the kit and knowhow!

http://www.amazingstill.com/parts.html
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Totally into having ago at this   mmm Gin!!! and the only good thing now about the law is I don't have to share it lol...coz it's not allowed  
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 11:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
ha ha ha ! swapsies arent mentioned in the law.......
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
fish wrote:
and heres all the kit and knowhow!

http://www.amazingstill.com/parts.html


Been looking through this site again you got the recipe for the drain cleaner Fish? I feel an experiment coming on...    


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